A wealth tax would impose a levy on the assets of a small percentage of people, either as a one-off or a continuing measure.

He said a better solution would be to impose a levy on home insurance policies to create a national fund to help people to move away from condemned homes.

The initial remedial scheme to impose a levy on bank depositors was inequitable.

Water companies impose a levy for drains, typically 30 a year.

However, he also suggested imposing a levy on any university that wanted to charge more than 6,000 a year to keep fee rises in check.

But the club last night announced that they would not levy the charge after supporters reacted angrily to the news.

Though they are allowed to charge upfront fees, they must not levy the charge until a 30-day cooling-off period has expired.

But nearly all lenders levy this charge before borrowers can leave their clutches.

An alternative plan under consideration by the government would be to levy a charge on pharmaceutical firms that do not invest in antibiotic research to support those that do.

However, always check with your lender first because some may levy a charge or impose a limit on the amount that you can pay each month.

The board had powers to levy a rate to provide drinking water and sewage facilities.

By the late 1600s the situation improved as surveyors were appointed by the magistrates, who were allowed to levy a rate to pay for some of the work.

Each vestry wanted houses to levy rates on.

The commissioners had power to levy rates for such matters as lighting, paving and sewerage.

Local trustees had the power to levy rates on the inhabitants for the support of the school.

Some will have been used only to threaten the debtor, or to levy a surcharge on the mortgage to recoup the debts.

Many car dealers do not accept credit cards, and the ones that do often levy a surcharge — perhaps 1.5% — or limit the amount you can pay on it.

Often providers will levy a surcharge in addition to the retail price as advertised at the fuelling station.

Discussions are also proceeding on making banks pay a levy to help cover the cost of rescues.

While most have long since closed such schemes to new members and new accrual, they continue to pay the levy.

Under the bailout, account holders had to pay a levy on large deposits.

Repeated polls have shown one in three homeowners unable to pay the levy because of the financial crisis.

Householders do not have to accept a smart meter when offered one by their supplier, but they still have to pay the levy.

Solidarity said it would have liked the minister to rather reduce the levy.

Government plans to reduce the inflation-proofing of the nation's pension funds were underlined when a compensation fund sharply reduced the levies it charges pension schemes.

State-wide reassessments since 1993 have resulted in several rollbacks, reducing the levy to 15.45.